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*I will be visiting St Thomas next month and am interested in visiting Hassel Island. If I go there, is there transportation, food, hiking, sightseeing, etc? I have not been able to find any information available on the web except for the history of the island. Thank you
Hello Donna.
There are no services available on Hassel so visitors must bring their own water and take any garbage they generate off the island.
There are four structures on the island that are listed in the National Historic Places Registry. The British occupied Hassel Island briefly during the Napoleonic Wars and you can view the remains of the military garrison they built on the island. Another historical site is the Creque Marine Railway, built in the 1840s as the St. Thomas Marine Repair Slip. It is one of the earliest steam-powered marine railways in the western hemisphere and the oldest surviving example of such a railway.
At Crown Bay Marina you can catch a small ferry for about $3.50 each way. Check with Tickles Dockside Pub 340-776-1595 for the ferry schedule.
Some interesting details can be found here:
http://www.onepaper.com/stthomasvi/?v=d&i=&s=Commentary:Op-ed&p=1105680537
Here is a web site for a place that does Hassel Island tours and some sort of Treasure Hunt. http://www.islandtreasuresvi.com/
